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Jacopo Ferrazza

Born: July 26, 1989

Jacopo Ferrazza was born in 1989.

Considered one of the most interesting European double bassists/composers, he began studying guitar at age 8, piano at 12, electric bass at 14 and double bass at 18.

He won in 2018 the SIAE award as the best Italian talent and was ranked several times among the best 3 talents by Musica Jazz magazine.

He studied bass and double bass with his father Angelo, John Patitucci, Aldo Perris, and Ares Tavolazzi and received his diploma in classical double bass with M° Luca Cola at the conservatory of Frosinone in 2015.  He also obtained a degree in classical piano with M° Carlo Negroni in 2016.

Take Five with Trio Lisipi

by AAJ Staff
June 23, 2019

About Trio Lisipi Sometimes jazz happens to you as something least expected. Exactly as it happened to Liliya Akhmetzyanova, the pianist from the jazz trio Lisipi. She started playing piano at age of six and, as many decent Russian pianists, graduated from a conservatory 20 years later. Then years of happy sight reading and ...

Luca Dell'Anna

Born: October 10, 1975

Italian pianist and composer Luca Dell’Anna was born on October 10, 1975 in Ferrara, a historical city with strong ties to jazz. He grew up listening to his father’s extensive record collection including Count Basie, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte and blues recordings together with Italian folk music.

His father also had a classical collection and Dell’Anna quickly fell in love with the music of J.S. Bach. Another important influence was Dell’Anna’s grandfather, who played the accordion and stressed the importance of tradition and melody.

Joshua Espinoza

Born: April 12, 1989

​Latino-American pianist Joshua Espinoza blends and bends genres into a style that is immediately relatable yet difficult to define. Fusing the spontaneity of jazz with soaring folk melodies, shimmering impressionism, and head bopping backbeats, Espinoza explores the art of musical storytelling with the refinement of classical chamber music but the freedom of jazz. Espinoza has performed professionally with jazz luminaries such as Sean Jones, Warren Wolf, Miho Hazama, Jihye Lee, Paul Bollenback, John D’earth, Mike Pope, Chuck Redd, and Kris Funn.

Billy Prim

Born: July 31, 1997

Billy Prim was born in Larisa , Greece in 1997. He started playing drums at the age of 15. His musical studies include 6 years of classical piano lesson. Billy he finished his basic education in Greece but after all that the music placed him somewhere else. He moved to Hungary and there he studied the drums. During and after his studies Billy was joining several musical projects, recordings and tours with different ensembles of different genres of music. Billy keeps going on with his musical journey, improvement, looks forward to new challenges, experiments for a better and newer experience

Yaniv Taubenhouse

Born: September 24, 1987

Having received his first piano lessons at the age of six, Israeli native Yaniv Taubenhouse graduated from the Thelma-Yellin high school of the arts in Tel Aviv. Upon graduation, he went on to study with gifted Israeli instructors such as Dr. Assaf Zohar, Ms. Hanna Shalgi, and Prof. Benjamin Oren. Masterclasses and lessons in the U.S. and Europe included work with jazz and classical pianists such as Richard Goode, Brad Mehldau, Robert McDonald, and Sonia Rubinsky.
 
In December 2009. Yaniv came to New York to study with pianist Pavlina Dokovska and in the fall of 2010, he moved to Fayetteville Arkansas to study with pianist Jura Margulis in the piano performance program at the University of Arkansas. Yaniv’s work with Jura Margulis included lessons at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg Austria. 
 
Yaniv has performed extensively at different venues and festivals around the world such as the Salle Cortot hall (Paris), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Bern Jazz Festival, Kfar Blum International Chamber Music Festival, Borja Jazz Festival, The Walton Art Center, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music (NY), Vicenza Jazz Festival, and live performance broadcasts on NPR affiliate, KUAF, 91.3 FM, to name a few.
 
Yaniv has played and performed with musicians such as David Schnitter, Ronald McClure, Roswell Rudd, Jorge Rossy, Peter Bernstein, Ari Hoenig, Geroge Coleman, Orlando Le Fleming, Anat Cohen, and Will Vinson, among many others.
 
‘Here from There'  is Yaniv’s debut album as a leader which was released in December 2014 on Fresh Sound Records and was well received by the press. The album was recorded in January 2013 and it features Darren Novotny on drums and Garrett Jones on bass, both Arkansas Native musicians.
 
In August of 2013, Yaniv moved to New York City, where he also received a scholarship to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and graduate with a BFA degree. Currently, Yaniv performs and records regularly in New York and internationally with numerous projects, both as a leader and as a sideman.
 
The Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio, featuring Rick Rosato (bass) and Jerad Lippi (drums), comes from a long lineage of musical influences both in and out of the jazz world. The group's repertoire features originals by Taubenhouse, Rosato, and Lippi as well as standards. The trio has recorded and released three critically-acclaimed albums in the Moments in Trio series. The three volumes (‘Moments in Trio - Volume One’, ‘Perpetuation - Volume Two’ and ‘Moments in Trio Volume Three: Roads’) have been released on Fresh Sound Records.

Peedu Kass

Born: February 27, 1986

Bassist Peedu Kass moves and grooves with the top names on the Estonian jazz scene and beyond. After garnering the prestigious Young Talent prize (2010) at Estonia’s annual Jazzkaar festival, Kass quickly established a reputation as Tallinn's first-call bassist, and his entrée onto the wider European scene was anticipated by his win, at age twenty, of the Sony Jazz Stage award in Riga, Latvia, in a year (2006) in which the competition was focused on his instrument. He has since shared the bandstand with the likes of Django Bates, Marilyn Mazur, Seamus Blake, Tony Allen, Lonnie Liston Smith, Antonio Hart, and the European Jazz Orchestra

Sebastiaan van Bavel

Born: March 31, 1992

Sebastiaan van Bavel is a pianist and composer combining the jazz tradition with elements from Indian and Western classical music. Although you will find his compositions to resemble a classical symphony more than a jazz standard, improvisation and swing always prevail in his music. Sebastiaan is in love with the piano trio format but is also praised when performing solo or as part of The Edison Duo with renowned jazz pianist Rob van Bavel (who just happens to be his dad). Sebastiaan likes to experiment with sound and timbre by occasionally expanding his trio with vocals, strings and/or horns

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Bruce Barth

Born: September 7, 1958

Jazz pianist and composer Bruce Barth has been sharing his music with listeners the world over for more than twenty-five years. In addition to traveling widely performing his own music, he has also performed with revered jazz masters, as well as collaborated with leading musicians of his own generation. And in a recent review in the Newark Star-Ledger, Zan Stewart writes "No one sounds quite like Barth. His solos are characterized by robust swing, his ability to tell a story, and by his rich, beguiling sound." Bruce has performed on over 125 recordings and movie soundtracks, including fifteen as a leader